 | Ernest Hawkins - 1845 - 494 Seiten
...was compelled, by the refusal of Government to furnish him with funds for his college, to forego this work of heroic, or rather godlike, benevolence ; though...the day — Time's noblest offspring is its last.'" 1 Before quitting this subject, it may be proper to mention, that many years after his return, Berkeley,... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 Seiten
...been accomplished. His age and his country are equally full of wonders, and of both he is the chief. " The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close...the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene be appropriately opened ; how could its... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 Seiten
...though I may suffer by the comparison. Westward the course of empire takes its way. The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last. Page 153, line 18. Where on hit altar.tomb, Sfc. An Interpolation. Page 154, line 3. Tho'... | |
 | 1845 - 952 Seiten
...clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." Here we might close our paper ; but the Bermudas have been celebrated by a living poet,... | |
 | 1845 - 564 Seiten
...on our country, " Westward the star of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last " * Milton "s Dcfcneio Secund*. In that high romance, if romance it be, in which the great... | |
 | 1846 - 1028 Seiten
...was compelled by the refusal of Government to furnish him with funds for his college, to forego this work of heroic, or rather godlike, benevolence ; though...the day — Time's noblest offspring is its last." Our missionary friends, now assembling from all parts, will know what use to make of this anecdote... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...human affairs shall be made on this theatre of the western world ; if it be true that, " The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last ;" how could this imposing, swelling, final scene, be appropriately opened, how could its... | |
 | James Wills - 1846 - 262 Seiten
...her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward, the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past ; A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last. To this testimony of Berkeley's muse, we shall here add dean Swift's very remarkable letter... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 Seiten
...clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way. The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last." To free schools and colleges the periodical press had been added, and newspapers began their... | |
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Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last. 
